of being attacked. and still, this as a veteran, as a soldier, coming back from vietnam, not being able to be served in fort benning, georgia where he trained as an infantry soldier. named by dick cheney but falling out with them later in the bush 43 white house because he privately opposed the iraq war. and fought against it internally, but privately, which was his want. and then i was with him, of course, at that february 2003 u.n. speech where he lent his credibility to the u.s. and to the world, unwittingly. and i know this for a fact. i was with him before, during, after, when he had gone to langley for two days, for the weekend before that speech in new york and had gone through all the evidence with george tenet and believed he had, as he put it, scrubbed the speech he
robert draper wrote this morning, colin powell was a heroic american figure tinged with tragedy, going to his february 2003 u.n. speech on iraq s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, but this is critical to remember this morning. we ve already talked about how he crossed his own party leaders when he thought the republican party had gone off track and was very critical of donald trump. it s important to remember, even in 2003, he was as robert draper reminds us, the only senior adviser to president bush to warn him about the consequences of going into iraq and admiral, again, as we learned after the iraq war, george w. bush did not ask him directly whether he supported the invasion or not.
put ourselves above everybody else. yeah. river rainbow hague is a navy veteran and a tv producer who was a combat cameraman in iraq and afghanistan. he also volunteered to fight isis in northern syria alongside the kurds. i know. you can find his film about it the volunteers, part 1 and part 2 on youtube. how do people who are not of that region end up over there fighting for the kurds? how does that happen? i was humbled to stand with the kurds. i was honored, but isis drew me there. i am pissed off when i watch people getting burned alive and our histories being plundered and destroyed and knowing that i participated in the creation of that. in february 2003, secretary of state and retired four-star general colin powell through some half truths and speculation and a little razzle-dazzle convinced the world that iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. and a month later, a u.s.-led
at first, it was just a rumor that sped around crozet, virginia, february 2003. pretty soon everybody knew it was true. it wasn t any ordinary fire robert davis witnessed out on cling lane. you hear about it in the grocery store or the gas station or stuff like that. it was clear that it was a murder. yes, sir. ann charles and her 3-year-old thomas were dead, horribly. the forensics man, larry claytor, got a better look at it than anybody. this is probably one of the more horrendous cases i had worked in my career. larry couldn t give investigators much to go on. a few small footprints out back in the snow. but forget dna. any possibility of finding that was flushed away by fire hoses. and then i get word from the medical examiner s office that they had recovered a knife that was sticking in the woman s back. what did you think when you heard that? i went back to my photographs and, sure enough, in the middle
at first, it was just a rumor that sped around crozet, virginia, february 2003. pretty soon everybody knew it was true. it wasn t any ordinary fire robert davis witnessed out on cling lane. you hear about it in the grocery store or the gas station or stuff like that. it was clear that it was a murder. yes, sir. ann charles and her 3-year-old thomas were dead, horribly. the forensics man, larry claytor, got a better look at it than anybody. this is probably one of the more horrendous cases i had worked in my career. larry couldn t give investigators much to go on. a few small footprints out back in the snow. but forget dna. any possibility of finding that was flushed away by fire hoses. and then i get word from the medical examiner s office that they had recovered a knife that was sticking in the woman s back.